Trumbo
The film follows the life of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo from being a Hollywood's top screenwriter to being jailed and blacklisted for his outspoken support for organized labor, and his membership in the Communist Party of the USA.
12 August 1948, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
26 July 1945, Chiswick, London, England, UK
18 November 1969, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
March 07, 2017
Revealing. Fascinating. Entertaining.
December 18, 2016
Tennessee Williams once described screenwriting as "the funniest but most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me".... [Trumbo] sadly does not contain any such moments of amusement or levity.
November 25, 2015
It's a period piece full of colorful characters, natty costumes, jaunty music.
August 04, 2016
Trumbo's biggest misstep is in sacrificing an aura of authenticity for gaudiness in its attempts to capture an unsavory era of American filmmaking.
November 20, 2015
A fun, highly watchable film.
November 26, 2015
Trumbo is ... a blast, even if the screenplay perversely lacks the energy of its title character, who is played with great wit and brio by Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston.
November 19, 2015
Roach's direction is pedestrian. He turns the picture into an earnest primer of the issues of the era and a road map of how Trumbo slowly resuscitates his career ...
November 20, 2015
The movie's main idea seems to be that, in the end, people prefer movies to ideas. Or at least ideologies.
February 24, 2017
Starring the very talented Bryan Cranston as the titular character, the film is not only a successful character study and biopic, it is also an engaging and entertaining glimpse at a very dark time in Hollywood's history.
November 27, 2015
We are left with the painful irony that a film about a screenwriter so good that Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger couldn't live without him suffers from a dull and slow-moving script.
August 22, 2016
Trumbo is a solid effort made close to unmissable thanks in large part to Cranston's magnificence, the resulting biopic a gripping return to a Hollywood of yesteryear where the themes being examined couldn't be more appropriately timely.
